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Originally Posted by kkchome
I just purchased a Kobo Glo and am having some issues. I have loaded my ebook library from Calibre and am able to access my books on the Kobo through the Library. However, the home screen is not showing the book I am currently reading or anything else. In order to get back to the book I am reading, I need to plow through the library, find the book and click on it. This is very cumbersome. I normally like to read several books concurrently, but I don't see how I can easily toggle between them when they are not showing up on the "reading" pane of the homescreen. Does the home screen only show books purchased from the Kubo store? If so, that is really terrible given I have a substantial library acquired over many years (I'm on my fifth ebook reader). Is there a fix, hack or workaround for this issue? I do not like the idea the this kind of basic functionality only works by being chained to the Kobo bookstore.  |
The home screen should show any books regardless of source. For non-kepub books, your Kobo should be using the first page of the book as the cover image. I've seen an issue similar to yours on two occasions. Once was when I copied over an ebook that I was looking at for a friend. An ebook which didn't even pay lip service to the epub standard and ended with me doing a factory reset to clean the SQLite database. The second was a co-worker who filled the internal storage on his Touch to the point where there was no free space to generate the cover and other image files.
To check if you have a corrupted database or file, you might want to try logging out of your account and back in. This should rebuild the database without removing any sideloaded content from the internal storage or requiring you to re-upgrade the firmware.
If that doesn't work, try a full factory reset. This will remove any books sideloaded to the internal storage but not on a uSD card. After the factory reset, before copying any of your ebooks back to the ereader, download a free ebook from the Kobo site and see if it shows on your home screen. If it does, then copy your ebooks back to the Kobo in small batches and allow it to process content between each batch. This should help to locate a problematic ebook which could be causing your problem.
Hope this is of some help to you.
Regards,
David